On Sun Jul 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM BST, Andrew Sayers wrote:
The first issue might be obvious, but is worth saying out loud - in MediaWiki, it should be a template
Definitely. The text you are commenting on began life as a policy for the current wiki, which does not have the necessary template support.
It also doesn't (or didn't) have a clear default (overriding or otherwise) content license, so spelling it out explicitly on pages was necessary to avoid ambiguity.
With Mediawiki supporting a default content license, the need to spell it out on pages explicitly goes away; unless there is a need to deviate from the default.
The second issue is more subtle - it entrenches editors' bad habit of creating new pages to avoid treading on other peoples' toes.
That's a good point.
I've read the "Content licensing" thread, but my only strong opinion is that a new wiki should have a single license for all contributions. Among other things, that would mean we don't need per-page attribution blocks at all.
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